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Fiordland

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Fiordland is a geographic region of New Zealand in the south-western corner of the South Island, comprising the western-most third of Southland. [1]

82 relations: Adze, Big Bay (Southland), Blechnum discolor, Bligh Sound, Blue duck, Bradshaw Sound, Breaksea Sound, Browne Falls, Caswell Sound, Chalky Island (New Zealand), Charles Sound, Dacrydium cupressinum, Dagg Sound, Department of Conservation (New Zealand), Doubtful Sound, Dusky Sound, Ecoregion, Eglinton River, Electricity, Endemism, Fern, Fiordland National Park, Fiordland skink, Fiordland's marine reserves, Fjord, Fuscospora fusca, George Sound, GNS Science, Hollyford River, Hollyford Valley, Hotel, Introduced species, Invercargill, Kiwi, Lake Hauroko, Lake Manapouri, Lake Monowai, Lake Poteriteri, Lake Te Anau, Land Information New Zealand, Lophozonia menziesii, Manapouri, Manapouri Power Station, Māori people, Milford Sound, Milford Track, Mount Tutoko, National park, National parks of New Zealand, New Zealand, ..., New Zealand State Highway 94, North Germanic languages, Nothofagus, Otago, Pounamu, Preservation Inlet, Queenstown, New Zealand, Red deer, Resolution Island (New Zealand), Secretary Island, Sound (geography), South Island, South Island takahē, Southern Alps, Southern Lakes (New Zealand), Southland District, Southland, New Zealand, Statistics New Zealand, Sutherland Falls, Sutherland Sound, Tasman Sea, Te Anau, Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Te Waewae Bay, Te Wahipounamu, Thompson Sound (New Zealand), Tourism New Zealand, Wallace County, New Zealand, Wikimapia, Wilmot Pass, World Heritage site, Yellowhead (bird). Expand index (32 more) »

Adze

The adze (alternative spelling: adz) is a cutting tool shaped somewhat like an axe that dates back to the stone age.

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Big Bay (Southland)

Big Bay, also known as Awarua Bay, is a deep indentation in the southwestern coast of New Zealand's South Island, 40 kilometres north of Milford Sound.

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Blechnum discolor

Blechnum discolor commonly called crown fern (Māori: kiokio), is a species of fern in the family Blechnaceae.

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Bligh Sound

Bligh Sound is a sound of the South Island of New Zealand, named in 1809 by John Grono, after the ship Governor Bligh in honour of the Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh.

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Blue duck

The blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae endemic to New Zealand.

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Bradshaw Sound

Bradshaw Sound is one of the larger New Zealand fiords.

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Breaksea Sound

Breaksea Sound is a small sound on the southwestern coast of South Island, New Zealand in the Tasman Sea.

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Browne Falls

Browne Falls is a waterfall above Doubtful Sound, which is located in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand.

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Caswell Sound

Caswell Sound is a sound of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Chalky Island (New Zealand)

Chalky Island or Te Kākahu-o-Tamatea is an island in the southwest of New Zealand, and is part of Fiordland National Park.

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Charles Sound

Charles Sound is a sound of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Dacrydium cupressinum

Dacrydium cupressinum, commonly known as rimu, is a large evergreen coniferous tree endemic to the forests of New Zealand.

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Dagg Sound

Dagg Sound or Te Ra in Maori is a narrow fiord/sound located in Fiordland, New Zealand.

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Department of Conservation (New Zealand)

The Department of Conservation (DOC) (Māori: Te Papa Atawhai) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with the conservation of New Zealand's natural and historical heritage.

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Doubtful Sound

Doubtful Sound / Patea is a very large and naturally imposing fiord in Fiordland, in the far south west of New Zealand.

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Dusky Sound

Dusky Sound is a fiord on the southwest corner of New Zealand, in Fiordland National Park.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.

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Eglinton River

The Eglinton River is located in the region of Southland in the southwest of New Zealand.

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Electricity

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Fern

A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.

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Fiordland National Park

Fiordland National Park occupies the southwest corner of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Fiordland skink

The Fiordland skink, Oligosoma acrinasum, is a species of skink endemic to the Fiordland temperate forests ecoregion of South Island, New Zealand.

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Fiordland's marine reserves

There are ten marine reserves in Fiordland region of New Zealand's South Island.

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Fjord

Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.

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Fuscospora fusca

Fuscospora fusca, commonly known as red beech (Māori: tawhai raunui) is a species of southern beech, endemic to New Zealand, where it occurs on both the North Island and South Island.

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George Sound

George Sound is a sound of the South Island of New Zealand.

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GNS Science

GNS Science (Māori: Te Pū Ao) is a New Zealand Crown Research Institute.

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Hollyford River

The Hollyford River / Whakatipu Kā Tuka is in the southwest of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Hollyford Valley

Hollyford Valley is a valley in Fiordland, New Zealand, in the southwest of the South Island.

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Hotel

A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis.

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Introduced species

An introduced species (alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species) is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.

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Invercargill

Invercargill (Waihōpai) is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world.

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Kiwi

Kiwi or kiwis are flightless birds native to New Zealand, in the genus Apteryx and family Apterygidae.

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Lake Hauroko

Lake Hauroko is located in a mountain valley in Fiordland National Park in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Lake Manapouri

Lake Manapōuri is located in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Lake Monowai

Lake Monowai is a large lake (31 km²) in the southern part of Fiordland National Park, in New Zealand's South Island, 120 kilometres northwest of Invercargill.

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Lake Poteriteri

Lake Poteriteri is the southernmost of the large lakes in Fiordland National Park in New Zealand's South Island.

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Lake Te Anau

Lake Te Anau is in the southwestern corner of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Land Information New Zealand

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) (Māori: Toitū Te Whenua) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with geographical information and surveying functions as well as handling land titles, and managing Crown land and property.

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Lophozonia menziesii

Lophozonia menziesii, or silver beech (tawhai), is a tree of the southern beech family endemic to New Zealand.

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Manapouri

Manapouri is a small town in Southland / Fiordland, in the southwest corner of the South Island, in New Zealand.

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Manapouri Power Station

Manapōuri Power Station is an underground hydroelectric power station on the western arm of Lake Manapouri in Fiordland National Park, in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Māori people

The Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand.

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Milford Sound

Milford Sound / Piopiotahi is a fiord in the south west of New Zealand's South Island within Fiordland National Park, Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) Marine Reserve, and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site.

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Milford Track

The Milford Track is a widely known tramping (hiking) route in New Zealand – located amidst mountains and temperate rain forest in Fiordland National Park in the southwest of the South Island.

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Mount Tutoko

Mount Tutoko is the highest peak in Fiordland National Park, in southwest New Zealand.

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National park

A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes.

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National parks of New Zealand

The national parks of New Zealand are 14 protected areas administered by the Department of Conservation.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand State Highway 94

State Highway 94 is a New Zealand state highway connecting the large Southland town of Gore with one of New Zealand's most popular destinations, Milford Sound.

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North Germanic languages

The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.

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Nothofagus

Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and Australasia (east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and New Caledonia).

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Otago

Otago is a region of New Zealand in the south of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council.

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Pounamu

Pounamu refers to several types of hard, durable and highly valued nephrite jade, bowenite, or serpentinite stone found in southern New Zealand.

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Preservation Inlet

Preservation Inlet is the southernmost fjord in Fiordland National Park and lies on the southwest corner of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Queenstown, New Zealand

Queenstown (Tāhuna) is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island.

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Red deer

The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species.

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Resolution Island (New Zealand)

Resolution Island or Tau Moana (Māori) is the largest island in the Fiordland region of southwest New Zealand, covering a total of.

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Secretary Island

Secretary Island is an island in southwestern New Zealand, lying entirely within Fiordland National Park.

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Sound (geography)

In geography, a sound is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land (see also strait).

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South Island

The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island.

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South Island takahē

The South Island takahē, notornis, or takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri), is a flightless bird indigenous to New Zealand and belonging to the rail family.

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Southern Alps

The Southern Alps (Kā Tiritiri-o-te-Moana) is a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand's South Island, reaching its greatest elevations near the range's western side.

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Southern Lakes (New Zealand)

The Southern Lakes is an unofficial name given to an area of the southern South Island of New Zealand.

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Southland District

Southland District is a territorial authority in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Southland, New Zealand

Southland (Murihiku) is New Zealand's southernmost region.

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Statistics New Zealand

Statistics New Zealand (Tatauranga Aotearoa), branded as Stats NZ, is the public service department of New Zealand charged with the collection of statistics related to the economy, population and society of New Zealand.

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Sutherland Falls

Sutherland Falls is a waterfall near Milford Sound in New Zealand's South Island.

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Sutherland Sound

Sutherland Sound is a sound of the South Island of New Zealand, discovered by pioneering explorer Donald Sutherland in 1883.

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Tasman Sea

The Tasman Sea (Māori: Te Tai-o-Rehua) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand.

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Te Anau

Te Anau is a town in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand is an online encyclopedia created by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage of the New Zealand Government.

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Te Waewae Bay

Te Waewae Bay is the westernmost of three large bays lying on the Foveaux Strait coast of Southland, New Zealand, the others being Oreti Beach and Toetoes Bay.

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Te Wahipounamu

Te Wāhipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") is a World Heritage Site in the south west corner of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Thompson Sound (New Zealand)

Thompson Sound is a sound of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Tourism New Zealand

Tourism New Zealand is the marketing agency responsible for promoting New Zealand as a tourism destination internationally.

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Wallace County, New Zealand

Wallace County was one of the counties of New Zealand in the South Island.

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Wikimapia

Wikimapia is a privately owned open-content collaborative mapping project, that utilizes an interactive "clickable" web map with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.

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Wilmot Pass

The Wilmot Pass is a high pass on the main divide of New Zealand's South Island.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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Yellowhead (bird)

The yellowhead or mohua (Maori: mōhua; Mohoua ochrocephala) is a small insectivorous, passerine bird endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiordland

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